Since we’ve been doing top 10 movies of the year lists, I thought it was a good time to look at Internet Movie Database’s top 10 highest rated movies of 2010. While it is very easy to discount any of these lists (or any best of list in general), and while it might be easy for many of you to just write off the user ratings on IMDb as fanboy voting, it’s definitely the largest sampling of movie-going opinion that exists today. Hit the jump to check out the list.Read More »

The nominations for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning, with announcements by Blair Underwood, Josh Duhamel, and Katie Holmes. The Social Network, The King’s Speech and The Fighter scored a handful of nods each. But where’s True Grit, which came up with nothing? If nothing else, walk away from this nomination list with the knowledge that The Fighter is a far stronger awards contender than anyone credited it with being just a couple weeks ago. The full list is after the break. Read More »

The International Animated Film Society ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominees for the 38th Annual Annie Awards, and the DreamWorks feature How to Train Your Dragon leads the pack with more than ten nods. But there’s a caveat; that and the full list of nominations after the break. Read More »

Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a short two-minute video celebrating the release of their latest film, by counting down the 49 animated features produced over the past seven decades — from 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to 2010’s Tangled. The video is set to the song “Dreams” by Brandi Carlile. Watch the video now embedded after the jump.

There’s been a lot of talk about the relative under-performance of The Princess and the Frog and how that led to a film about Rapunzel being renamed Tangled. The idea is that audiences now, especially male audiences, aren’t interested in princess stories, and by extension fairytales. (Shh, no one tell the people putting together Snow White and the Huntsman.)

Even so, cue no small amount of surprise when an article ran this weekend proclaiming that Disney is done with making animated fairy tales for the time being. But then, to confuse the issue, the president of Walt Disney Animation later said that some of the reports quotes weren’t quite right. Read More »

Let the battle for second and third Best Animated Feature of the year begin. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced their short list of 15 features that are eligible to be nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards and right out of the gate, competition is fierce. Due to Academy rules, if up to 15 films qualify for the nomination, there will be only three nominees. If there are 16 or more films eligible, five films get nominated. So this year only three films, out of a very strong group, will get to call themselves Oscar nominees. But, really, we know there’s already a clear cut favorite.

Of the nine years this award has existed, Pixar films have won five Oscars (Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Wall-E and Up) against only two losses (Monsters Inc., Cars). And with the unprecedented critical and financial success of Toy Story 3, chances are everyone else is just vying for a nomination. Check out the full list, which includes several films that have yet to be released, as well as our detailed analysis/predictions, after the jump. Read More »